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Historical Event on 6/25/1943
No. 8 Squadron started functioning absorbing the remaining coastal defence flight personnel, and also issued with a vengeance to achieve operational status.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/2/1979 | Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (vs West Indies). |
| 8/15/1997 | K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta. |
| 9/12/1899 | T. N. Swaminathan Pillai, master of Karnataka Classical Music, was born. |
| 7/26/1922 | Girilal Jain, famous journalist and editor, was born. |
| 10/26/1996 | CBI detects a chain of bank transactions between August '93 and February '96 by four JMM leaders. |
| 6/9/1909 | Baburao Arnalkar, famous detective story writer, was born. |
| 1/2/1947 | Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Bevin, the personal emissary of British Prime Minister Winston Churchil, in Delhi. Beven is reported to have told the great man, ''Eighteen languages, 500 dialects, some 30 religions, a million Gods and Goddesses, 300 million individuals, an infinity of castes and sub castes, and a population (that is) practically illiterate and half of which (are) beggars or thieves... Good luck, sir! Such a nation is ungovernable! It'd take you centuries to get anywhere!''. Gandhiji wrapped his large, white shawl a little more closely around him, and modestly replied, 'India has eternity before her.. and ""All around me is utter darkness"". |
| 3/3/1943 | Gandhi breaks his hunger strike after 21 days. |
| 1/16/1941 | Ashok Vajpai, veteran critic and Hindi poet, was born. |
| 10/16/1878 | Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet and writer, was born at Chennara village in Kerala. |
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